Samsung Researchers Celebrate Promising Graphene Breakthrough

Flexible displays, terahertz chips, and vastly improved electronics just got closer to emerging from laboratories and reaching the market, thanks to the work of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea.

Samsung Electronics announced April 4 that its researchers have found a way to accelerate the commercialization of graphene, a material endowed with exceptional conductivity, strength, flexibility, lightness, and transparency.

Discovered in 2004 by professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester -- a feat that earned them the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics -- graphene is seen as a wonder material that can revolutionize products and industrial processes across multiple industries.

Graphene’s future uses include touchscreens for smartphones, as well as more energy-efficient processors. (Image: Wikipedia)

When the transistor was invented it was not considered a disruptive technology since it could not scale in frequency due to the imputies in the then silicon ingots. It took a few years for a German company to find a way to clean silicon using "Zone Refining" methods.

I see the same thing happening here with graphene. I'm going to take a second look at Samsung as an investment.